Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence
利用英国犯罪调查和人口调查数据，发现男性失业减少家庭暴力，女性失业增加家庭暴力，为失业与家暴的关系提供了理论证据。
Does rising unemployment really increase domestic violence as many commentators expect? The contribution of this article is to examine how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. Theory predicts that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally disaggregated labour market data from the UK's Annual Population Survey, we find strong evidence in support of the theoretical prediction.